pcworld.com Archives - 19 March 2013, Tuesday

The largest Bitcoin exchange in the world will have a presence in the U.S. starting this month, a move intended to make it easier for people in the U.S. and Canada to buy the virtual currency. The exchange, called Mt. Gox, is working with the U.S. startup CoinLab and Silicon Valley Ba...

Mega will accept the virtual currency bitcoin for subscriptions for more storage space on the file-sharing service, cofounder Kim Dotcom announced on Twitter. Harley Ogier /PCWorld New Zealand Kim Dotcom at the Mega introduction. Mega is the second prominent website in a week to say i...

The popular social-news site Reddit said it will now accept bitcoins, following blogging platform WordPress in embracing the four-year-old virtual currency. Reddit, which lets users submit and vote on popular Web content, already uses PayPal and Google Wallet for its "Gold" service, w...

Developers of the Ruby on Rails Web development framework released versions 3.0.20 and 2.3.16 of the software on Monday in order to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability. This is the third security update released in January for Ruby on Rails , an increasingly popular...

Do you use Ruby on Rails? If so, it’s time to update. Now. Ruby on Rails is an open source Web application framework built to use with the Ruby programming language. Ruby on Rails—or just Rails—gives Web developers the ability to gather information from Web servers, or query a databas...

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A small New York-based company that specializes in exchanging Bitcoins is back online after hackers stole about US$250,000 worth of the virtual currency earlier this month. Roman Shtylman, founder of BitFloor , said by phone from London on Monday he reported the theft to the FBI and t...

Anthony Gallippi, CEO of BitPay, has started paying his gardener—in BitCoins. His gardener carries a card with a QR code with the needed information for Gallippi to transfer BitCoins to his account once he's finished tending the lawn. The gardener has chosen to get 90 percent of the m...

Hackers stole about US$250,000 from BitFloor, a BitCoin exchange, on Monday, and it does not have the money to reimburse account holders, according to the website's founder. Similar Articles: World's First Virtual Heist? BitCoin User Loses $500,000 Faked Bitcoins Caused Price Crash, E...

Of all the virtual currencies out there, BitCoin is the most interesting from a technical perspective -- and the least interesting from the business point of view. BitCoin is a peer-to-peer virtual currency that uses cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money. Farm Cas...